Roseau School Board to meet again on important issue

At a special 7 a.m. Roseau School Board meeting on Wednesday, October 7, via Zoom, school board members failed to reach a consensus on alleviating the situation for elementary school teachers.

The school board needed to reach a majority vote of 4-2 to pass a proposal to allow elementary teachers to have Fridays to work from their classrooms without students as is presently the situation in grades 7 through 12.

"It was to give elementary teachers Fridays to deal with their distance learners and make it somewhat comparable with what the high school teachers have," said one veteran high school te...